Guyana

News about Guyana, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

May. 11, 2015

Former Pres Jimmy Carter's nonprofit organization Carter Center says he ended election-monitoring trip to Guyana early and flew home after becoming sick. MORE

Jan. 21, 2015

Guyana's Pres Donald Ramotar, who suspended Parliament in November to avoid a no-confidence vote, announces that general elections will be held on May 11. MORE

Jan. 18, 2015

Guyana's multiracial party Alliance for Change has gained traction by giving voice to new generation of Guyanese who say politics have held country back by favoring race over merit, undermining economic progress. MORE

Nov. 12, 2014

Guyanese Pres Donald Ramotar suspends National Assembly amid escalating conflict with political opposition; exercises constitutional mechanism that gives him right to disband legislature for up to six months, as part of effort to prevent it from holding a no-confidence vote. MORE

Jun. 22, 2014

Seth Kugel Frugal Traveler article on trip to Guyana, offbeat first stop on journey to World Cup in Brazil. MORE

Dec. 6, 2013

Georgetown Journal; conflict has surfaced between Guyana's government and calypso performers, who accuse it of repressing their often politically charged music by keeping it off the airwaves; dispute piggybacks on decades-old ethnic tensions between the descendants of African slaves and those of indentured Indian servants. MORE

Oct. 12, 2013

Five Americans on research ship working under an oil exploration contract with Guyanese government have become ensnared in territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela after Venezuelan naval vessel obstructs ship's passage in Guyanese waters. MORE

Jan. 9, 2012

Scores, if not hundreds, of Guyanese immigrants in Queens are facing financial ruin because of loans said to have been arranged by self-made Guyanese real estate magnate Edul Ahmad, with repercussions extending to Washington and Guyana; Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have charged Ahmad, many of whose clients were immigrants, with masterminding a $50 million mortgage fraud. MORE

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January 21, 2015, Wednesday

A few years ago, a gathering of members of Guyana’s two main ethnic groups — descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India — would have been unusual, but a new third party has changed that dynamic.